The Stan Laurel, Ulverston

Lovely olde world stylee pub inside. L-shaped with 5 handpulls dispensing a good schoice of beers. Surprisingly, like all pubs in Ulverston it wasn't as submerged I Laurel and Hardy memorabilia as I thought it would be. A really nice pub.

The Stan Laurel has not fully re-opened since lockdown. It is only currently open for diners and for take-outs. We elected to eat here, so that I could visit. Meals were fairly ordinary, but they did still have a couple of ales on - Ulverston Celebration Ale & Thwaite's Wainwright. The pub is much larger than I expected, with 3 rooms. The room you enter into was empty and could easily have held a dozen or so drinkers with social distancing. I'm sure the pub will re-open for drinkers soon.

This is an irregular shaped pub with patio area. The pub has been freshley repainted in white - i managed a photo before the signs went back-up. The pub was called the Britannia, but was renamed and remodelled back in 1976. The interior has a few rooms. The main room has the serving bar in front, and is in white artex and beam ceiling and walls. This room is mainly for dining (although there is a smaller dining room too - which i didn't see), and has a fakey stone fireplace with chopped wood, as well as copious amounts of Laurel and Hardy pictures and memorabilia, pump clips and a few brasses. The other room is a bar, and we had to eat in here as it was so full - the food was decent. This room, also in white with Stan pictures, has a pool table and dart board. There is a TV in the bar, which wasn't on and there was general music at an OK level. The service was fine and the clientele very mixed, between tourists and locals. Beer; usual tap stuff with Derwent MILD, Cross Bay Halo, Ulverston's My Home Town, Northumberland's Fog on the Tyne, Twaites Original and Lytham Blonde - all i tried were decent. We popped back here a few times during the week - i could stay here a good while!

Things must have improved a lot here since our visit in 1989. I dont like themed pubs at the best of times but the pub was there to be done so we went in,once inside we went into a largish room that seemed qiute bare,there were lots of tables and chairs dotted about the place. We got in this pub quite late on a Saturday night and the pub was almost empty and to make things worse there were no real ales on the bar,this used to be an S&N house and there were only keg beers on i had a drink of Youngers bitter and this was a pretty bad drink. Pub visited 15/4/1989 Photo taken 16/4/1989